Amazon.com Services LLC

Research Science, Retail

ResearchScientist,PrivateBrandsIntelligence

$136–184k San Diego, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Research Scientist, Private Brands Intelligence at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Machine Learning, Optimization, Statistics, Causal Inference. Translate business requirements into deliverables. Design optimization solutions”

What You'll Achieve.

Derive actionable insights; Develop Statistical Models and Algorithms; Drive strategic business decisions; Improve operations; Enable measurable actions on consumer economy

Industry & Context.

Research Science, Retail
Problems you'll solve

Tackle intrinsically hard problems; Decompose complex problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Master's degree and 4+ years quantitative field research experience, Experience investigating scientific principles to business problems, Experience with Python, Java, or C++

Nice to Have

PhD preferred, Knowledge of R, MATLAB, or Python, Experience with agile development, Experience in machine learning, statistics, and deep learning, Usage of generative AI tools, Willingness to learn generative AI prompting and evaluation

What You'll Do.

Translate business requirements into deliverables

Design optimization solutions

Develop optimization solutions

Test optimization solutions

Deploy optimization solutions

Acquire expertise as needed

Decompose complex problems into solutions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with business leaders; Work with scientists; Work with economists; Work with interdisciplinary team

Full Job Description

The Private Brands team is looking for a Research Scientist to join the team in building science solutions at scale. Our team applies Optimization, Machine Learning, Statistics, Causal Inference, and Econometrics/Economics to derive actionable insights about the complex economy of Amazon’s retail business and develop Statistical Models and Algorithms to drive strategic business decisions and improve operations. We are an interdisciplinary team of Scientists, Engineers, and Economists. Key job responsibilities You will work with business leaders, scientists, and economists to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables, including the design, development, testing, and deployment of highly scalable optimization solutions and ML models. This is a unique, high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to have business impact, dive deep into large-scale problems, enable measurable actions on the consumer economy, and work closely with scientists and economists. As a Research Scientist, you bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in Operations Research and predictive models and working with distributed systems. Academic and/or practical background in Operations Research, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning are particularly relevant for this position. To know more about Amazon science, Please visit https://www.amazon.science Basic Qualifications: - PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience - Experience investigating the feasibility of applyi

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